the gigantic mouth-waterin’, lip-smackin’ thanksgiving picture book feast, part one

November 24, 2010October 9, 2017 ~ jama ~ 2 Comments

“To be a human being is an honor, and we offer thanksgiving for all the gifts of life.” ~ Chief Jake Swamp, Giving Thanks

Come, ye hungry people, come!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Lots of room at the alphabet soup table, so please take a seat and make yourself at home. Since this is a rather large feast, thought we’d serve Part One today and Part Two tomorrow.

The bread basket is brimming with warm and flaky crescent rolls, freshly baked cranberry nut loaf, challah, and fried chapatis and pupusas. The golden brown turkey is just about ready to be carved, and all your favorite side dishes are here: fluffy mashed potatoes, mushroom gravy, sausage apple stuffing, green bean casserole with fried onion topping, cranberry relish, candied sweet potatoes, creamed onions, roasted butternut squash, and glazed parsnips. And we’ll throw in some friendly cornbread in honor of the Native Americans, who taught the Pilgrims how to plant corn.

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ve have a vinner!

November 22, 2010 ~ jama

Velcome Vamps!

Time to give away the Blessed ARC!

This is of the utmost importance, because the longer it stays in my possession, the more I vant to suck your blood, the more obsessed I become with the letter "V" — voles, venom, vipers, vitriol!

*sips blood wine*

Thank you all for entering. I salivvvvvvvated uncontrollably reading about your favorite red foods.

There were juicy strawberries,

penwren/flickr

ravvvvvvishing raspberries (fingers taste good, too),

D. Sharon Pruitt/flickr

a raft of tomatoes,

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spicy, bubbling spaghetti sauce,

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and one of my all-time favorite vices, cherry pie.

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Several of you were enamoured with that luscious Southern favorite, Red Velvet Cake. Oh yes, all excellent choices!

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The carnivvvvvores threw down a slab or two of rare beef steak. The bloodier, the better.

FotoosVanRobin/flickr

But when all was said and done (i.e., when the Random Number Generator spoke), the vinner’s red food of choice was decidedly PINK:

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Now, I’m happy to announce that the ARC of Blessed by Cynthia Leitich Smith goes to —

WINNER HERE!

monday musings

November 15, 2010 ~ jama

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Why hello.

Come join me on the couch (I straightened everything up just for you). ☺

It’s mid-November and our wild turkeys are nowhere to be seen. Every year, right after Halloween, they sense the coming of mashed potatoes and gravy via wattle radar, and hightail it out of the country. Can’t say I blame them.

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my favorite veteran

November 11, 2010December 22, 2017 ~ jama

My mother, Margaret, and her younger brother, Joe.

Some people are fond of saying they “love a man in uniform.”

As for me, I’m proud to say, “my mother once wore a uniform.” Olive drab wool and khaki, to be exact, when she enlisted in the Women’s Army Corps back in World World II.

Margaret is in the 4th row from the top, far right.

In 1944, Margaret joined the first company of WACs from Hawai’i — a unique contingent of 59 women (ages 20 to 44) representing almost every ethnic group in the Islands, 15 languages spoken among them. All were “local girls,” most of whom had never been to the Mainland. They wanted to serve as well as see other parts of the country. About 50 of them were from O’ahu; some had been under enemy fire, others had seen their homes or businesses ravaged by bombers.

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